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MATERIALS: The Color Purple; “Everyday Use”; “Women” (poem); Trudier Harris’ “The Myth of the American Dream”; Talcott’s “Gender Roles”; Bessie Smith “Preaching the Blues”, Lightning Hopkins’ “Mojo Hand” and other blues lyrics; “Quilting in Literature”; Frederick Douglass’ slave narrative; spoken slave narratives from the 1930s; “Walker Gibson’s Plain, Sweet, and Stuffy; “Student Writing Close Reading: Analyzing Style in Paired Passages”; “Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Short Simple Sentences and Fragments”; Stephen Jay Gould, Women’s Brains; Virginia Woolf, Professions for Women; Gretel Ehrlich, About Men; Judith Ortiz Cofer, The Myth of the Latin Woman; Paul Theroux, Being a Man; Deborah Tannen, There Is No Unmarked Woman; Zora Neale Hurston, Sweat (fiction); Marge Piercy, Barbie Doll (poetry); Visual Text Cathy Guisewite, Cathy (cartoon); Visual Text Bill Broadway, New and Newer Versions of Scripture (table); Conversation Focus on Defining Masculinity; Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky, Why Johnny Wont Read; Ann Hulbert, Boy Problems (includes table); David Brooks, Mind over Muscle; Rebecca Walker, Putting down the Gun; Student Writing Argument: Supporting an Assertion; Grammar as Rhetoric and Style Pronouns; Suggestions for Writing Gender; The Art of Composition; How to Read Literature Like a Professor; selected poems, criticism, essays, and AP test-prep materials